My American adventure (Part7)- The Traveling begins

So, after we said our final goodbyes, I flew from Minneapolis to New York City. A dream come true. I have wanted to go so badly since I was 13. I actually wanted to move there, but the realized you had to pay a fortune to rent a walk-in-closet to live in. That's the only reason I didn't ...and a few more.
So I went to NYC ALL ALONE, landed at 8pm and the got to the hostel on my own and did not get lost. Very proud of myself! I shared a room with some Polish girls who were in bed when I arrived at 9pm  and still were in there when I left at 10 am the next morning. But then came the really challenging part: I had to sleep in  bed with sheets and pillows and not my sleeping bag. I almost could not handle it.
The next morning I met up with my camp friend Jim and we explored the city. The freedom was almost too much. We went to Starbucks, of course.

                                               Then we went to Times Square.

                                  I freaked out because suddenly there was Ellen (on the screen)!

                       Jim and me on the steps on Times square. Taking goofy pics!

                                Then Megan joined us and we "met" the Statue of Liberty

                                                                      jep

                                                                 New York Taxi

                                             Empire state from the Rockefeller Center

                                                              Central Park

                              

                                                      Megan and me in Central Park

                                                                    Ground zero

Me and all my luggage on Times Square at night again. I dragged all my luggage across New York that evening. And those stupid subways did not even have elevators!!!
Then I had to say goodbye to Jim (miss her so much). I did not even cry anymore, because I had had to say goodbye so often in the past days.
Megan and I went to a hotel just outside New York, because the tour from New York to Miami, we had both booked independently from each other, started the next day (she had been at a different Girl scouts camp in Minnesota).